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19 November 2007 • By Columnist • 1 min read

Standards of service

Banks and financial institutions shell out huge sums of money year after year on introducing new technologies and processes aimed at making them more ...

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CBA rolls out bank planning division

Former Macquarie banker Ian Anderson and CBA's Stewart Creighton head up new business. Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has launched Financial ...

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Financial planning wants you

The discipline, focus, dependability and leadership learnt in the armed forces makes military recruits a natural fit for the planning industry. On ...

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Learning from orthopedic surgery

Perhaps one of the main reasons planning is not a profession is because most advisers do not act as professionals in their dealings with their clien...

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Sub-prime mortgages, leverage and market contagion

To understand why the sub-prime crisis affected global markets it is important to understand long-short funds and leveraged strategies. Global bond...

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Westpoint auditor, researcher not yet out of the woods

Are KPMG and PIR out of the woods? Presumably Wealthcare and/or the Pollards can still join KPMG and PIR to the proceedings, but they will have to be ...

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Managing financial planning practice growth

Sound business management is crucial if the transition from a small practice to a medium-sized business is to be achieved successfully. Financial p...

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Be careful what you wish for

If planners are fiduciaries, what sort of fiduciaries are they and what rules apply to them? Further, what is a fiduciary anyway? There's a debate ...

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The change in climate for investors

Increasing attention to environmental and social issues will impact on future corporate revenues, profits and investment returns. Investors, consu...

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Think like a business owner, not just an adviser

Best practice suggests the face-to-face time of advisers, including those who are working owners, should be up near the 60 per cent mark. How do you f...

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